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Single Idea 20773

[from 'fragments/reports' by Chrysippus, in 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality ]

Full Idea

One can find no other starting point or origin for justice except the one derived from Zeus and that derived from the common nature; for everything like this must have that starting point, if we are going to say anything at all about good and bad things.

Gist of Idea

The origin of justice can only be in Zeus, and in nature

Source

Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]), quoted by Plutarch - 70: Stoic Self-contradictions 1035c

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.9


A Reaction

[in lost 'On Gods' bk 3] This appears to offer two starting points, in the mind of Zeus, and in nature, though since nature is presumed to be rational the two may run together. Is Zeus the embodiment, or the unconscious source, or the maker of decrees?